Vocab I-Q

Question 1

Immanence

Answer 1

the nearness or involvement of God in the world.

Question 2

Incarnation

Answer 2

“becoming flesh;”

Question 3

Justification

Answer 3

the act by which God brings people into proper or right relationship with himself In Paul the justification or righteousness of God is to be received by faith, not works.

Question 4

Kerygma

Answer 4

(literally “proclamation”): the early Christian preaching about Jesus as the Christ intended to elicit the decision of faith.

Question 5

Kingdom of God

Answer 5

God’s lordship over humankind and the world.

Question 6

Koine

Answer 6

the everyday Greek

Question 7

Law

Answer 7

revelation of God through Moses

Question 8

Lord’s Supper

Answer 8

the church’s continuing reenactment of the last supper

Question 9

Manuscripts

Answer 9

handwritten documents

Question 10

Messiah

Answer 10

Hebrew term meaning “anointed one.”

Question 11

Miracle

Answer 11

: an extraordinary event, contrary to normal expectations

Question 12

Nag Hammadi

Answer 12

village in upper (southern) Egypt, near the place where a collection of Gnostic writings were discovered

Question 13

Oral Tradition

Answer 13

teaching transmitted from person to person or by word of mouth

Question 14

Orthodoxy

Answer 14

from the Greek, literally meaning “right opinion”

Question 15

Paganism

Answer 15

any of the polytheistic religions of the Greco-Roman world

Question 16

Parable

Answer 16

a brief story that makes its point by the unusual development or imagery of the narrative.

Question 17

Paraclete

Answer 17

: helper, comforter, or healer

Question 18

Paraenesis

Answer 18

a Greek term meaning moral exhortation.

Question 19

Parousia

Answer 19

the early Christian belief in the appearance or second coming of Christ.

Question 20

Passover

Answer 20

the annual Jewish celebration of the deliverance from slavery

Question 21

Pericope

Answer 21

Term is used of the individual, complete units of tradition about Jesus

Question 22

Propitiation

Answer 22

a placating or pacifying of the deity

Question 23

Pseudepigrpha

Answer 23

particularly a group of late Jewish

writings claiming the Old Testament figures as their authors.

Question 24

Q source

Answer 24

the hypothetical source, consisting of sayings of Jesus

Question 25

Qumran

Answer 25

the site on the northwest shore where scrolls were discovered